C.J. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services

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• holding evidence was insufficient to find that parental conduct at issue was likely to continue
• holding insufficient expert witness who used only State file and gave generalized conclusions without discussing case particulars
• holding State failed to meet burden to prove unfit parent despite fact “that C.J. made no effort to demonstrate his fitness as a parent” for substantial period
• holding testimony of expert was insufficient to support termination where expert’s “conclusion appear[ed] to be little more than generalizations about the harms resulting from a parent’s absence and provid[ed] little discussion of the particular facts of [the] case”
• declining to hold that a meeting between the expert and the parties to the termination proceeding is necessary in every case, but reversing termination because the expert’s opinion was not sufficiently based on the particular facts of the case
• declining to hold that a meeting between the expert and the parties to the termination proceeding is necessary in every case, but reversing termination because the expert's opinion was not sufficiently based on the particular facts of the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).